{"id":89112,"date":"2021-10-10T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=89112"},"modified":"2021-10-10T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:40:42","slug":"cdc-dir-rochelle-walensky-brazenly-tells-bald-faced-lies-about-blaming-continuing-pandemic-on-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=89112","title":{"rendered":"CDC Dir. Rochelle Walensky Brazenly Tells Bald-Faced Lies About Blaming Continuing Pandemic on &#8220;Unvaccinated&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CDC Head Says She &#8220;Can&#8217;t Predict&#8221; When<br \/>\nCOVID Will End; Blames Unvaccinated<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to a gathering of journalists and academics organized by the Health Coverage Fellowship, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky\u00a0<strong>warned that she can&#8217;t predict when the COVID pandemic will end<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; if it ever does &#8211; because it largely depends on human behavior, which is, of course, impossible to predict.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, Walensky first gained public notoriety for her tearful outburst back in March, just as COVID deaths in the US were bottoming out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1376557200433410050&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fcdc-head-says-she-cant-predict-when-covid-will-end-blames-unvaccinated&amp;sessionId=25a4ccd1212252c677933be132dc77161fba076f&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1376557200433410050\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<p>Now, with cases, deaths and hospitalizations on the decline once again (although you wouldn&#8217;t know it from the media coverage, which fixates on Alaska and a few other sparsely populated areas where healthcare resources are scarce) Dr. Walensky is setting the stage for the Biden Administration to continue with its heavy-handed vaccination mandates, even as more scientists speak up to question whether these vaccine supplies\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/math-doesnt-work-more-scientists-speak-out-against-biden-admins-push-booster-jabs\">might be put to better use in the emerging world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/CDCW.jpeg?itok=Wvtb_YZK\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/CDCW.jpeg?itok=Wvtb_YZK\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/CDCW.jpeg?itok=Wvtb_YZK\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9c588cb2-886e-4606-9205-43ad71bca08e\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Rochelle Walensky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As more scientists argue that we may be in the midst of the last major COVID wave (before it morphs into a flu-like endemic seasonal virus), Dr. Walensky laments that &#8220;we have a lot of the science right now; we have vaccines&#8230;what we can&#8217;t really predict is human behavior. And human behavior in this pandemic hasn&#8217;t served us very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Dr. Walensky would prefer the US government simply coerce every citizen to accept the vaccine like China has?<\/p>\n<p>She went on to complain that with only 55% of the US adult population vaccinated, there isn&#8217;t enough immunity to fend off the next harmful variant that emerges (though notably all of the most dangerous variants so far have emerged outside of the US, including delta).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walensky went on to discuss how &#8220;dangerous&#8221; the delta variant is, citing its &#8220;R-naught&#8221;. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, the &#8220;R-naught&#8221; or &#8220;Ro&#8221; is a measure of the infectiousness of a given virus. The higher the number, the more infectious. In theory, it represents the number of people that every new patient infected with a virus goes on to spread the virus to. Walensky puts the number for delta at as high as 8 or 9.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_placement__1I4yb Advert_align__N0_fw\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith the delta variant, the R-naught is 8 or 9,\u201d Walensky said. R-naught, or the basic reproduction number, signifies the average number of people to whom an infected person will spread the virus. \u201cThat means we need a lot of protection in the community to not have disease.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there are others who believe the &#8220;Ro&#8221; of delta is much, much lower.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/jpmorgan-concludes-delta-variant-was-less-infectious-feared\">we shared research<\/a>\u00a0from JPM&#8217;s policy research analyst David Mackie who found that<strong>\u00a0&#8220;the Delta wave was much milder than expected: none of these countries saw the gains in [Ro] that we anticipated.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this research could blow up the carefully scripted narrative promulgated by the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci, that Delta was far more contagious and &#8220;potentially&#8221; more deadly than previous variants. And already, over the past week, we have seen more media reports &#8211; and even government edicts &#8211; raising new questions about COVID jabs and whether the US policy to vaccinate the entire population might be flawed.<\/p>\n<p>But the stunning results of JPM&#8217;s research can be found in Table 1, which shows the &#8220;Ro&#8221; of the delta wave is much lower than the &#8220;8 or 9&#8221; quoted by Dr. Walensky.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/cdc-head-says-she-cant-predict-when-covid-will-end-blames-unvaccinated\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/cdc-head-says-she-cant-predict-when-covid-will-end-blames-unvaccinated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC Head Says She &#8220;Can&#8217;t Predict&#8221; When COVID Will End; Blames Unvaccinated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}